GFS is going for well over 100 mm rain in the next three days in the
northern pennines,

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rmgfs96sum.gif

the residents of Carlisle must be worried being only 2 years since the Jan
05 floods

"Dorian Speakman" "dorian wrote in message
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cupra wrote:
Dorian Speakman" "dorian wrote:
Met Office have put out a warning of possible flooding for later this
week, and looking at the surface chart there seems some similarity
with the Easter 1998 floods for Northampton - converging fronts lying
east to west
though wet conditions previous to the downpours occured there.

Remember that well, the journey home from Bedford to Northampton took
about 2 1/2 hours as each route I went down seemed blocked. At the time I
lived opposite an area that's now been built on.... it was a couple of
feet under the water back then.....

I take it where you lived is now protected by the new Nene flood defences
then?

...I wonder if all the cuts in flood defence programmes will come to be
regretted by Defra?...


Dorian.